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All the ideas for 'Varieties of Causation', 'The Rationalists' and 'Epiphenomenal and supervenient causation'

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8 ideas

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance

4304	Descartes says there are two substance, Spinoza one, and Leibniz infinitely many [Cottingham]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 12. Essential Parts

8443	Mereological essentialism says an entity must have exactly those parts [Sosa]

12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism

4303	The notion of substance lies at the heart of rationalist metaphysics [Cottingham]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / a. Observation of causation

3535	All observable causes are merely epiphenomena [Kim]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / b. Nomological causation

8442	What law would explain causation in the case of causing a table to come into existence? [Sosa]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

8445	The necessitated is not always a result or consequence of the necessitator [Sosa]

4306	For rationalists, it is necessary that effects be deducible from their causes [Cottingham]

8444	Where is the necessary causation in the three people being tall making everybody tall? [Sosa]